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Orgeon Guardsman checks helicopter systems before medevac flight in Iraq

Oregon National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Joe Zeiner, a Task Force 38 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot with Company C, 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment checks the computer-based manual for the helicopter as he prepares for a contingency aeromedical staging facility flight Thursday, Nov. 12, at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. The CASF flight later turned into a medevac flight as blood had to be transported to an outlying base. The Oregon Guard company conducted CASF flights and medevac flights in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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Tennessee Guardsman practices MRAP skills on simulator

253rd Military Police (MP) Company Soldier, Spc. Michael Curtis, from Knoxville, Tenn., operates the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Common Driver Trainer (MRAP CDT) simulator during training at Army Support Activity-Dix (ASA-Dix) April 8. Curtis and his unit, a Tennessee Army National Guard organization from Lenoir City, Tenn., are at ASA-Dix to prepare for an upcoming deployment to Iraq to train the Iraqi police force. (Photo by Ryan Morton, ASA-Dix Public Affairs)

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South Carolina Guardsman demonstrates a FIM-92 Stinger missile in the nation’s capital

Pfc. Trevor Gaston, a Soldier with the 2nd Battalion, 263rd Air Defense Artillery, demonstrates an FIM-92 Stinger Man-Portable Air-Defense System at Bolling Air Force Base April 14, 2010. Air Defense units from South Carolina and Ohio have been on rotating deployments to the National Capitol Region to support homeland defense as part of Operation Noble Eagle. This continued operation began in 2001, just days after--and in response to--the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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